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Science fiction is the literature of the future. So the best SF novels have endings that resolve the story and leave you feeling as though it continues after the last page. Here are our favorite last lines from SF books. More »
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Space opera and military science fiction are huge again, but I'm not aware of anybody publishing the type of wonderfully nihilistic space adventures that William Barton used to write in the 1990s. Barton, with occasional co-author Michael Capobianco, put out a dozen books that show how oppression and exploitation aren't crimes that bad people commit — they're part of the fabric of civilization. Here's why you should be hunting down every Barton novel you can find, with spoilers for a couple of his books. More »
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The Host, the first adult novel from Stephenie Meyer, is as cheesy as you'd expect from this trailer, which aired during Good Morning America. (Not to mention Meyer's track record as author of the young-adult vampire series Twilight, soon to be a movie.) But The Host is a better class of beach read, thanks to its narrator, an alien who participates in a successful occupation of a conquered Earth. A bizarre love triangle lets Meyer ask questions about human consciousness, and whether the colonizers assimilate the colonized, or vice versa. Spoilers ahead. More »
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